LONDON LAGNA- Lagna means ‘marriage’ in Hindi. “London Lagna” is a multimedia, performance installation. It investigates misrepresentations of cultural practices in contemporary art and media. Through the enactment of a traditional Indian marriage ceremony, London Lagna offers a humorous representation of rituals placed outside its region, locale, nationality or cultural origin.
The home project one could call it a self portrait, but using my own personal history, story or narrative I would like to talk about the unconscious dreams and desires of a person and the collective society as a whole. I know Breda, when i wrote the time period of the film as 8 minutes I was in a little doubt myself, since it does seem a tall order, but I will be showing people directly talking about me in third person, i will be using their narration as sound which I will be super imposing on visuals be in photographs, video footage etc. Ideally I would like this to be 8 minutes long, but I would also like to leave somethings to chance, it could be longer, but i do know that I dont want it to be a long piece like 20 minutes or so.
Bindu
‘Home’ project – a self-portrait ,actually? all this* audio & visual information compressed in 8min?
*“…using images, photographs of all the places I have lived in, video footage, sound recording of people who knew me, the recordings will be in past tense, they will talk about this person called bindu her dreams n desires her sense of belonging to that place, her dreams of a good life, her declaration of her independence, her dreams for equality, her search for a perfect home, a perfect place, a perfect city etc. sound/music will be an integral part of the work.”
